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MODIS Collection 6 global 8-daily Gross Primary Production

Kern, Stefan

Data curator(s)
Sadikni, Remon; Jahnke-Bornemann, Annika

Abstract: MODIS Collection 6 8-day Gross Primary Production (GPP) and Net Photosynthesis data on the MODIS sinusoidal grid are taken from the netCDF files produced at ICDC, for which the bit-encoded quality information given in the HDF-files was already decoded, and re-gridded to build a global map of grid-cell mean GPP and net photosynthesis and their variances on a global equirectangular climate modeling grid (CMG). Only those GPP or net photosynthesis values are used where i) the cloud flag indicates either clear sky or assumed clear sky, where the MODLAND quality is good and where the confidence flag suggests best quality or good quality data. The confidence flag is provided as a grid-cell mean rounded value with fractions of the five original flags being provided for convenience. Cloud conditions are included in form of the primary cloud flag and the fraction this primary cloud flag occupies among the valid 500 m sinusoidal grid grid cells. Two separate layers of the number of valid grid cells of the 500 m sinusoidal grid are given, one is for the geophysical data and one is for the flags.

TableOfContents: grid cell mean Gross_Primary_Production (GPP); grid cell mean Net Photosynthesis; GPP standard deviation over grid cell; Net Photosynthesis standard deviation over grid cell; number of used GPP or net photosynthesis values per grid cell; number of used confidence and quality flag values per grid cell; grid cell mean confidence flag; fraction of confidence flag 0 in grid cell; fraction of confidence flag 1 in grid cell; fraction of confidence flag 2 in grid cell; fraction of confidence flag 3 in grid cell; fraction of confidence flag 4 in grid cell; primary cloud flag; primary cloud flag fraction

Technical Info: dimension: 720 columns x 360 rows x unlimited; temporalExtent_startDate: 2000-02-18; temporalExtent_endDate: 2020-12-31; temporalResolution: 8-daily; spatialResolution: 0.5; spatialResolutionUnit: degrees; horizontalResolutionXdirection: 0.5; horizontalResolutionXdirectionUnit: degrees; horizontalResolutionYdirection: 0.5; horizontalResolutionYdirectionUnit: degrees; verticalResolution: none; verticalResolutionUnit: none; verticalStart: none; verticalEnd: none; instrumentName: MODerate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS); instrumentType: visible_to_infrared_spectroradiometer; instrumentLocation: Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) Terra; instrumentProvider: NOAA/NASA 

Methods: [1] Running, S. W., and M. Zhao, Users Guide Daily GPP and Annual NPP (MOD17A2H/A3H) and Year-end Gap-Filled (MOD17A2HGF/A3HGF) Products NASA Earth Observing System MODIS Land Algorithm, (For Collection 6), Version 4.0, January 2, 2019; [2] Running, S. W., R. R. Nemani, F. A. Heinsch, M. Zhao, M. Reeves, and H. Hashimoto, A continuous satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production. Bioscience, 54(6), 547-560, 2004; [3] Running, S. W., A measurable planetary boundary layer for the biosphere. Science, 337(6101), 1458-1459, 2012; [4] Zhao, M., F. A. Heinsch, R. R. Nemani, and S. W. Running, Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set. Remote Sensing of Environment, 95(2), 164-176, 2005

Units: Units for all variables (see TableOfContents): kg C / m2; kg C / m2; kg C / m2; kg C / m2; 1; 1; 1; percent; percent; percent; percent; percent; 1; percent

geoLocations: westBoundLongitude: -180.0 degrees East; eastBoundLongitude: 180.0 degrees East; southBoundLatitude: -90.0 degrees North; northBoundLatitude: 90.0 degrees North; geoLocationPlace: global on land

Size: (files are packed into one zip-archive per year)

  • 2001-2020: 46 files per year, each approximately 12975000 bytes
  • 2000: 40 files of same size 

Format: netCDF

DataSources:

Original data on sinusoidal grid tiles in hdf-format: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD17A2H.006 (last accessed: 2021-02-01), see also https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod17a2hv006/ (last accessed: 2021-02-01)

Data on sinusoidal grid tiles in netCDF format: https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-primaryproduction.html (last accessed: 2023-11-24)

Contact: stefan.kern (at) uni-hamburg.de

Web page: https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-primaryproduction.html (last accessed: 2023-11-24)

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